IT’S FUNNY that now we’re back in the city, find myself still drawn to cosy cottages, especially stone ones like the one we left, or this one, yellow brick and covered in climbing roses. A four-bedroom manor house built in 1820, this listed cottage is located in Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, just on the edge of North York Moors National Park. It has warm wood parquet floors and textured chalky lime plaster walls, plenty of built-in open shelves, a romantic working wood-burning stove in the drawing room, and a a Yorkshire stone fireplace in the dining room. Best of all, it has lived-in English countryside style that you would imagine nestled in an ancient village. Scroll through for a glimpse…
